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2026

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Environmental Sciences

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82
Citations
32711
World Ranking
866
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Japan Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Hideshige Takada is affiliated with Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in Japan and has a research focus primarily in Environmental Science. Their scholarly work encompasses subfields including Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Ecology, and Molecular Medicine.

The scientist's main topics of study revolve around Microplastics and Plastic Pollution, Effects and Risks of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals, Recycling and Waste Management Techniques, Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact, Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts, Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria, and Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Takada include Kaoruko Mizukawa, Bee Geok Yeo, Mona ALIDOUST, Rei Yamashita, and Ayaka Takei. Their publications have appeared numerous times in several journals, notably Environmental Monitoring and Contaminants Research, Marine Pollution Bulletin, The Science of The Total Environment, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, and Annals of Global Health.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Takada include:

  • The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health, 2023, Annals of Global Health
  • In Vivo Accumulation of Plastic-Derived Chemicals into Seabird Tissues, 2020, Current Biology
  • Antibiotic residues from aquaculture farms and their ecological risks in Southeast Asia: a case study from Malaysia, 2021, Ecosystem Health and Sustainability
  • An analytical survey of benzotriazole UV stabilizers in plastic products and their endocrine-disrupting potential via human estrogen and androgen receptors, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Microplastics in urban wastewater and estuarine water: Importance of street runoff, 2021, Environmental Monitoring and Contaminants Research

Best Publications

  • Transport and release of chemicals from plastics to the environment and to wildlife

    Emma L. Teuten;Jovita M. Saquing;Detlef R. U. Knappe;Morton A. Barlaz

  • Plastic Resin Pellets as a Transport Medium for Toxic Chemicals in the Marine Environment

    Yukie Mato;Tomohiko Isobe;Hideshige Takada;Haruyuki Kanehiro

  • Policy: Classify plastic waste as hazardous

    Chelsea M. Rochman;Mark Anthony Browne;Benjamin S. Halpern;Brian T. Hentschel

  • Pharmaceutical chemicals and endocrine disrupters in municipal wastewater in Tokyo and their removal during activated sludge treatment.

    Norihide Nakada;Toshikatsu Tanishima;Hiroyuki Shinohara;Kentaro Kiri

  • Organic micropollutants in marine plastics debris from the open ocean and remote and urban beaches.

    Hisashi Hirai;Hideshige Takada;Yuko Ogata;Rei Yamashita

  • Distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in rivers and estuaries in Malaysia: a widespread input of petrogenic PAHs.

    Mohamad Pauzi Zakaria;Hideshige Takada;Shinobu Tsutsumi;Kei Ohno

  • International Pellet Watch: Global monitoring of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in coastal waters. 1. Initial phase data on PCBs, DDTs, and HCHs

    Yuko Ogata;Hideshige Takada;Kaoruko Mizukawa;Hisashi Hirai

  • Accumulation of plastic-derived chemicals in tissues of seabirds ingesting marine plastics.

    Kosuke Tanaka;Hideshige Takada;Rei Yamashita;Kaoruko Mizukawa

  • Removal of selected pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) and endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) during sand filtration and ozonation at a municipal sewage treatment plant.

    Norihide Nakada;Hiroyuki Shinohara;Ayako Murata;Kentaro Kiri

  • Microplastic fragments and microbeads in digestive tracts of planktivorous fish from urban coastal waters

    Kosuke Tanaka;Hideshige Takada

  • Concentration of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in beached resin pellets: Variability among individual particles and regional differences

    Satoshi Endo;Reiko Takizawa;Keiji Okuda;Hideshige Takada

  • Distribution and behavior of nonylphenol, octylphenol, and nonylphenol monoethoxylate in Tokyo metropolitan area: their association with aquatic particles and sedimentary distributions.

    Tomohiko Isobe;Hajime Nishiyama;and Arisa Nakashima;Hideshige Takada

  • Distribution and origins of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in riverine, estuarine, and marine sediments in Thailand.

    Ruchaya Boonyatumanond;Gullaya Wattayakorn;Ayako Togo;Hideshige Takada

  • Microplastics in Sediment Cores from Asia and Africa as Indicators of Temporal Trends in Plastic Pollution

    Yukari Matsuguma;Hideshige Takada;Hidetoshi Kumata;Hirohide Kanke

  • Antibiotic contamination and occurrence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in aquatic environments of northern Vietnam.

    Phan Thi Phuong Hoa;Satoshi Managaki;Norihide Nakada;Hideshige Takada

  • Distribution of macrolides, sulfonamides, and trimethoprim in tropical waters: ubiquitous occurrence of veterinary antibiotics in the Mekong Delta.

    Satoshi Managaki;Ayako Murata;Hideshige Takada;Bui Cach Tuyen

  • The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health

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  • Global research priorities to mitigate plastic pollution impacts on marine wildlife

    Amanda C Vegter;Mario Barletta;Cathy A Beck;Jose Carlos Borrero

  • Evaluation of pharmaceuticals and personal care products as water-soluble molecular markers of sewage.

    Norihide Nakada;Kentaro Kiri;Hiroyuki Shinohara;Arata Harada

  • Determination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in urban street dusts and their source materials by capillary gas chromatography

    Hideshige Takada;Tomoko Onda;Norio Ogura

  • Sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in street dust in a tropical Asian mega-city, Bangkok, Thailand.

    Ruchaya Boonyatumanond;Michio Murakami;Gullaya Wattayakorn;Ayako Togo

Frequent Co-Authors

Mohamad Pauzi Zakaria
Mohamad Pauzi Zakaria University of Malaya
Norihide Nakada
Norihide Nakada Kanagawa University
Yutaka Watanuki
Yutaka Watanuki Hokkaido University
Tomohiko Isobe
Tomohiko Isobe National Institute for Environmental Studies
Ryoshi Ishiwatari
Ryoshi Ishiwatari Tokyo Metropolitan University
Masao Uchida
Masao Uchida National Institute for Environmental Studies
Pham Hung Viet
Pham Hung Viet Vietnam National University, Hanoi
John W. Farrington
John W. Farrington Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Richard C. Thompson
Richard C. Thompson Plymouth University
Hiroshi Naraoka
Hiroshi Naraoka Kyushu University

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